Panaji, May 19: Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal’s mother Shakuntala Tejpal passed away after being ill for sometime, his lawyer said on Monday. She was 87.
Shakuntala was suffering from brain tumour and was living in Tejpal’s house at Moira in North Goa.
“She expired last evening at Tejpal’s Goa residence. The decision is yet to be taken whether the final rites would be conducted in Goa or Delhi,” Tejpal’s lawyer Sandip Kapoor told media persons, adding that the family members will take a call on it.
She had been admitted to a hospital in Mapusa but was later discharged.
Tejpal’s lawyers are going to move the fast track court in Panaji seeking permission to allow him to perform the final rites.
“We are going to move the court now. We heard the news about the demise last night around 9 p.m.,” the journalist’s another lawyer Raunak Rav said.
The court had in the past twice granted permission to Tejpal to meet his ailing mother, once in the hospital at Mapusa town and the second time at his residence in Goa.
Tejpal is booked for allegedly raping his woman colleague during an event in the state and has been lodged in jail since November 30 last year, after his anticipatory bail was rejected by a local court.
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May 19, 2014
Kerala reports second COVID-19 death
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March 31,2020
Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 31: Kerala reported its second COVID-19 death after a 68-year-old man being treated for the virus, died at the Government Medical College Hospital here in the early hours on Tuesday.
The victim, Abdul Aziz, a retired ASI hailing from Pothencode here, was admitted to the isolation ward on March 23 with the symptoms of the Corona infection. He was also suffering from lung and kidney diseases.
Though his first test result for COVID-19 turned negative, the second test result confirmed positive, official sources said.
However, it was not known from where he caught the virus infection. leaving chances for a secondary contract of a COVID-19 patient.
His funeral will take place as per the protocol, the sources added.
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India's COVID-19 tally soars past 9,000 mark, 35 new deaths in last 24 hours
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April 13,2020
New Delhi, Apr 13: India's tally of positive COVID-19 cases rose to 9,152 following an increase of 796 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday.
Out of the total number of cases, 7,987 patients are active cases while 857 cases have been cured/discharged and migrated.
With 35 deaths in the last 24 hours, the death toll mounted to 308.
According to the ministry, Maharashtra remained at the top with the total cases at 1,985, including 217 patients who have recovered/discharged and 149 patients died.
Delhi's tally of positive COVID-19 cases rose to 1,154 cases, including 27 recovered and 24 patients succumbing to the virus.
Tamil Nadu too reported 1,075 cases, including 50 recovered and 11 patients dead.
Meanwhile, four states have crossed the 500 mark with regards to the total number of cases as Rajasthan recorded 804 cases, Madhya Pradesh with 532 cases, Gujarat with 516 cases and Telangana with 504 cases, as per the ministry.
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We saw a moral victory as BJP vote share increased: Delhi BJP chief
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February 11,2020
New Delhi, Feb 11: Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari on Tuesday said the party will review why it failed to meet its own expectations in the Assembly polls and saw a moral victory in the fact that the party's vote share has increased since 2015.
"Delhi must have given mandate after careful thinking. Our vote percentage has increased from 32 per cent to around 38 per cent. Delhi did not reject us and the increase (in vote share) is a good sign for us," he told reporters.
He said the BJP hopes that there would be less blame game and more work in the national capital and congratulated Arvind Kejriwal on his party's victory in the polls.
After winning the Patparganj seat, AAP senior leader Manish Sisodia accused the BJP of indulging in the politics of hate.
"We indulge in politics of development not politics of hate. We're against the roadblock in Shaheen Bagh as we were earlier," he said.
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